New Jersey · Nonprofit
FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,001 to it, the largest being Shrita Charitable Foundation ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Forum for Religious Freedom does
Mission
Foster & protect the religious diversity and pluralism, protecting, preserving, rejuvenating and disseminating information about non aggressive religious traditions
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Vedic Science Research Centre
$0 spentof which $34,200 as grantsBharati Yogadhama
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$0 spentof which $1,470 as grantsDr Joydeep Bagchi
$0 spentof which $2,500 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $53k to $9k (−83%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Raghu Rao
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $25k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,731 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?
- FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,001 to it, the largest being Shrita Charitable Foundation ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $215,001 in grants to FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?
- Shrita Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORUM FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing